Swiss Official Calls for Google Street View to Be Shut Down

Hanspeter Thür, Switzerland’s federal data protection commissioner, is not remaining neutral on the issue of Google Street View, according to the New York Times. Thür wants Street View to shut down because he says that faces and license plates haven’t adequately been blurred out.

Google says that it would not shut down Street View, instead going the "meet with the public official" privately route, which is basically their M.O.

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